When do School-aged Patients Return to School After ACL Surgery?

Completed

• Conditions: ACL Reconstruction

• Registration Number: NCT03929237
• Lead Sponsor: St. Louis University

Brief Summary

We intend to survey school aged patients following ACL surgery on when they return to school. We will analyze independent variables to determine if any relationship exists that may influence the amount of time missed.

Detailed Description

All patients undergoing ACL surgery who are enrolled in middle or high school will be recruited for study participation. Patients undergoing concomitant additional ligament surgery will be excluded. The only procedure will be to answer a short written questionnaire asking when they returned to school and what accommodations, if any, the school made available for them. This will occur at the patient's 2 week post-operative clinic visit. This clinic visit is a standard of care visit. Independent variables will be collected from the medical record and are all standard of care information routinely collected from this patient populations (age, sex, race, date of surgery, surgeon, sport played, grade, ACL surgery graft type, associated meniscal or chondral surgery, length of post-operative narcotic use, regional nerve block at the time of surgery, SANE score, IKDC score, brace used).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-04-18
• Study First Submitted: 2019-04-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-04-25
• Study First Posted: 2019-04-26
• Primary Completion: 2021-12-31
• Study Completion: 2021-12-31
• Status Verified: 2022-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-02-03
• Last Update Posted: 2022-02-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 58

Inclusion Criteria

• ACL reconstruction surgery
• currently enrolled in middle or high school (grades 6-12)
• Surgery occurs during the school year
• No concomitant additional ligament surgery (ie. PCL, MCL, LCL or MPFL)

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Exclusion Criteria

• patient is home schooled or in non-traditional school setting (ie. school for special needs)
• concomitant additional ligament surgery
• surgery occurs outside of the school year or on a scheduled break from school

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
When return to school after surgery	1-2 weeks post-operatively	days from surgery to return to school

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Saint Louis University; 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital; 🇺🇸 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States